Liesse, émeute et panique : enquête sur l’effervescence et la cristallisation des états publics de la foule.
Lucien Delley, Luca Pattaroni et Pascal Viot | 10.06.2020This article questions the notion of effervescence in a crowd gathered during festive or sporting events. Starting from survey of the various theoretical construction of the crowd as an object of knowledge, we criticize conceptions that consider it as an irrational mental fusion and focus on what we propose to call the "public conditions" of the crowd, manifested by the emergence of accountable collective behaviours. Beyond the risks that are generally associated with it, a crowd is an opportunity [...]